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Rapper Wiley has once again been suspended from Twitter after posting more 'anti-Semitic' messages from a new account.
The grime star was banned from the social media site last July after being widely condemned for a series of posts, including one which called Jewish people 'cowards and snakes'.
He caused further controversy when he claimed his Jewish associates in the music and entertainment industry 'still see us as slaves' in an interview with The Voice newspaper.
In the subsequent days, the musician, whose real name is Richard Cowie, denied he is racist and apologised for 'generalising'.
He then set up a new Twitter account under the handle @WileyRecordings, which the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) says was used to 'spout racist hate towards Jews'.
Rapper Wiley has once again been suspended from Twitter after posting more 'anti-Semitic' messages from a new account
On that account, he tweeted a number of posts, including an image of himself in Hasidic garb
Twitter told Jewish News that the account was 'permanently suspended for violations of the Twitter rules on hateful conduct policy'
On that account, he tweeted an image of himself in Hasidic garb and a video titled 'the Jewish Faces that Control Hiphop and Mainstream Black Music.'
He posted a further video 'discuss[ing]